While moving forward quickly, Shen Junhao also pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

Although separated by a short distance, the footsteps of Cong An and the other two were still faintly visible, indicating the direction in which he was heading. This also saved him a lot of work trying to catch up.

It's not because Cong An was negligent and exposed his position. As a former pursuer, Shen Junhao couldn't be more familiar with this practice. In this case, when the pursued party hears the sound of footsteps approaching from behind, the nerves that were already tense will be further stimulated, and the person being chasing will make a wrong judgment in a state of high tension. It's just that this is the only way to use this practice is for the tracker to make sure they're getting closer to the target, because that's the only way to put the most pressure on the other person.

Now it seems that Cong An is very confident in his speed and judgment. Even if he couldn't see the prisoner who was supposed to be in front of him now, he still insisted on stepping down every step to make the most intimidating sound.

But suddenly, at a certain moment, his pace slowed down, and even stopped.

At that moment, Shen Junhao heard the two guards who were following Cong An make puzzled sounds. But the sound lasted less than a second, and then they were cut off stiffly, as if they were hastily covering their mouths with their hands.

"It's strange, is he so familiar?"

After a few seconds, Shen Junhao finally heard Cong An's voice again. Only at this point his voice sounded a little ethereal, as if he had spoken in another room outside the passage. Shen Junhao quickened his pace and walked up, and finally saw the scene above when he reached a certain floor. This spiral staircase that seems to have no end in sight ends here, and at its end is an entrance, and the bright milky white light on the other side shines through the open door, and the scene in the room cannot be seen from Shen Junhao's angle, and it can only be judged from the sound just now, it should not be too narrow over there.

His heart moved, and he quickly followed.

On the other end, Cong An frowned and looked around. The layout of this maintenance room is very simple, and it doesn't look like someone can hide, but it would be a bit counterintuitive for him to judge that the other party had fled. After all, Huang Lao is a senior host, and he has a clear understanding of the bottom line of various things. He could tell Shen Junhao how to take a shortcut to escape in a very subtle way, but he couldn't draw a map of the entire escape route from prison and hand it to him after all. Once you arrive at the maintenance room, there are only two ways to escape. However, the route to those two places is not as straightforward as the secret passage just now, and as long as you find the entrance, you can reach the end smoothly.

What's even more troublesome is that he can't be sure if Shen Junhao knows this clearly. It is also possible that the other party will start a hopeless exploration after arriving here, in which case there will be thousands of possible routes, and the three of them alone will not be able to confirm them one by one.

Cong An hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to use the method just now. He took two guards with him, originally because he foresaw that he would not be able to catch up, and planned to keep an insurance. He arranged for two guards to follow two different paths to the two key locations (and inevitably summoned other guards along the way), while pacing back and forth in the preparation room himself, trying to find some clues before considering the direction of his pursuit.

When he came like this, he was miserable for Shen Junhao, who was lurking in the shadows. Even though he had reached the end of the hallway and could enter the room at any time, it was too dangerous to sneak in under the nose of a host. However, Shen Junhao's good situation at this time only came from Cong An's slight panic for a while, if it dragged on any longer, let him continue to pace in the room like this, and slowly calm down and thought that he was going to look back, then the situation would be very dangerous.

As soon as Shen Junhao thought of this, he suddenly felt the footsteps in the room pause. A cold light flashed in his mind, and the subconscious formed by the long-term experience warned him that there was danger here!

"There are rats in a place like this."

Cong An muttered to himself as he turned around and walked in the direction of the passage. His voice sounded relaxed, but there was a sudden smell of danger in the air. With his sense of hearing, which was instantly tempered to the limit because of danger, Shen Junhao seemed to hear the sound of footsteps mixed with the sound of air being broken, and the unique "snap" sound of objects falling into the palm of his hand.

Shen Junhao instantly understood. At this time, Cong An was mostly walking, and he was taking out a dagger or something like that and throwing it in his hand. This may mean that he has noticed himself following behind him, and is about to turn around and correct him on the spot. At this moment, there were three choices in front of Shen Junhao.

One is to flee immediately, the sooner the better, and then bet that the host's footsteps can't catch up with him, but this is a dead end at all, because once his whereabouts are exposed, it is impossible to lose it with the host's skills no matter what, not to mention that going back is a prison, even if he gets rid of the pursuers, he still can't escape.

The other is to jump out and fight to the death with Cong An while Cong An is not fully ready. There is no need to knock down the other party, as long as the other party can reveal enough flaws, Shen Junhao has hope to seize the opportunity to escape. Although it is very likely that the outside is also a labyrinth-like place, and it is very likely that you will get lost in it, but this is also more hopeful than turning back and escaping.

However, at this time, Cong An had already taken a few steps forward and occupied the position of the passage entrance in advance. Here he can be said to be a husband and wife, and if you want to force him out of there, the difficulty is not much different from knocking him down directly. Cong An obviously also anticipated the possibility of the other party's dog jumping off the wall in a hurry, and took out his weapon in advance, so that Shen Junhao would fight against the host with a weapon with his bare hands, and the chances of victory would be so slim that it was negligible.

So in the end, Shen Junhao could only choose the last path, which was the most negative path. His body pressed against the wall, holding his breath motionlessly, allowing only the tiniest airflow to flow naturally through his nasal cavity. His eyes were wide open and he looked ahead, not letting go of the slightest hint of trouble, even if he knew it was futile, because when he found the other party, it meant that he was already exposed to the other party's line of sight, and it was too late to do anything by then.

But for now, he could only hold his breath and wait quietly.

"It's strange, is there really a rat ...... this place?"

Cong An muttered in his mouth and slowly walked into the passage. His pace slowed down so much that it sounded full of vigilance. The sound of broken thoughts can be seen as a temptation or a threat, just stirring the fragile nerves of the prey, waiting for the other party to automatically reveal its flaws.

Suddenly, a wisp of dust fell from above and landed gently on Cong An's shoulder. In the dim light, its slow falling appearance was extremely conspicuous, and Cong An's eyes followed it all the time, and finally looked up with interest.

"Oh?"

Cong An turned his head and gently brushed the dust on his shoulders with his fingers, a grim smile appeared on his face. Of course, dust does not fall for no reason, and this wisp of dust at this time is obviously touched by "something". If there could be no rats here, then there was only one way to touch the dust.

"I'll give you one last chance, I'll show up, or come out on my own."

His words made Shen Junhao's scalp seem to explode in an instant, and the sudden chill on his back made his feet almost unstoppably tremble slightly, but he resolutely stopped it with stronger nerves. Shen Junhao still maintained the posture just now, but closed his eyes and waited.

"Oh? If you don't come out, it's too late. ”

Cong An smiled cruelly, picked up the dagger in his hand and stabbed it upward!

A scream pierced the silence of the passage, a cry of death. Shen Junhao's heart thumped, and he felt that the speed of his heartbeat instantly doubled, and he could hear the sound of beating underneath through the thick prison uniform.

But the heartbeat meant that he was alive.

"Hell, how can there really be rats?"

Cong An shook the dagger, and in disgust, shook off the small corpse that was stabbed at the front of the dagger. He cursed, his voice gradually faded away, Shen Junhao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and his tense body began to relax. Hiding under the stairs was indeed correct, although Cong An only had to take a few more steps forward to turn the corner and see him, but he bet that Cong An needed to be in a hurry, so he was bluffing all the time, so even if he turned back to check the way he came, most likely he wouldn't go too deep.

Although this mouse helped him by accident and ended Cong An's temptation ahead of schedule, judging from the results, this is still a victory of Shen Junhao's judgment. At this time, he gathered his mood, pricked up his ears again to catch the sound inside, thinking about when to go a little further, and when Cong An left, he could escape here as quickly as possible.

He was thinking about it, when suddenly his eyes lit up! A bright blade pierced the steel plate of the stairs directly, and directly stabbed less than two centimeters in front of him! As long as the knife was a little bit higher just now, it was his head that was pierced at this time!

Shen Junhao almost screamed instinctively, but the psychological quality of professional training forcibly stopped all his reactions. Shen Junhao just opened his eyes wide and watched the blade being slowly pulled out, and Cong An's voice suddenly appeared directly above him.

"It's strange, it's really not. If only ordinary people would scream even if they weren't stabbed. He scratched his head, sounding a little confused. This time Cong Anzhen is gone, time is urgent, since he has confirmed the way over, he can only search forward.

And Shen Junhao hid for a long time before he came out. The guy who had thought he had left a few steps suddenly appeared overhead, and he didn't even notice it...... At this moment, Shen Junhao once again realized the huge gap between himself and the host, and the idea of fighting to the death that he once had was born really disappeared at this time.

He had planned to quickly search for any useful clues after entering this room, and then quickly pick a path to go, even if he was not sure, he would try his luck. There must be no more time wasted in this process to prevent complications.

However, the next second he stepped into that room, when he saw the scene outside the window, Shen Junhao, who had planned not to waste time, actually stood in place.

"This ...... This is ......."

He looked out the window, dumbfounded.

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